All Projects

201 Results for
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193,013
Lincoln
Recipient
Otter Tail County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Otter Tail
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,010
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Scott
Recipient
Kittson County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,879
Kittson
Recipient
Jordan Area Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990
Scott
Recipient
Jordan Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,608
Scott
Recipient
Douglas County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer
Douglas
Recipient
Friends of the Museum
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,495

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer/scanner to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Carlton County Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer/scanner to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.

Carlton
Recipient
Belle Plaine Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,995
Scott
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Todd
Douglas
Morrison
Stearns
Recipient
City of Canby
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,745
Douglas
Recipient
City of Alexandria
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To draft a Historic Context Study and integrate the study with the city's comprehensive plan.
Douglas
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$64,325

To expand on a partnership program that will provide archaeology and cultural resource management outreach services for alpha sites at three metro area history organizations.

Anoka
Dakota
Scott
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,259
Partner Organizations: Anoka County Historical Society, Dakota County Historical Society, Scott County Historical Society, and Ramsey County Historical Society Four county historical societies will begin a pilot program in 2015 to provide archaeology and cultural resource management outreach services to local history organizations in the seven-county metro area.The pilot project will address immediate needs of participating organizations, including public programming, data collection, collections care and staff training, while also providing valuable insight into long-term needs of local his
Dakota
Ramsey
Scott
Anoka
Recipient
Black Men Teach
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,085

To document in 15 oral history interviews the history of African American educators in Minnesota.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Statewide
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press)
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified professionals to publish Howard Greene's journals about the north woods of Minnesota.

Statewide
Cook
Koochiching
Lake
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Canby
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
To hire a qualified consultant to develop a Historic Structure Report that will help preserve the Canby Theatre, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Yellow Medicine
Big Stone
Chippewa
Lyon
Pipestone
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,951
To gain intellectual and physical control of photographic materials held in public trust.
Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000
To catalog the Maurice Stans collection in order to gain physical and intellectual control over the collection and offer it to the public in new ways.
Scott
Recipient
Prairie Skyline Foundation, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$206,608
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
Prairie Skyline Foundation, Inc.
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,000
To hire a qualified architect to prepare a conditions assessment and planning documents for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, proposed to be used as a community center, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
City of Fergus Falls
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

The Fergus Falls Heritage Preservation commission, in cooperation with the Otter Tail County Historical Society, produced a brochure with the help of a qualified historian. The brochure consists of photographs, descriptions and maps to locate historically significant buildings and homes in the city. It was designed for use as a self-guided tour of the city's historical and architectural landmarks. The 40-page brochure is available through the Otter Tail County Historical Society, the Fergus Falls Heritage Preservation Commission and the Fergus Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Prospect House Museum
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,984
Becker
Clay
Douglas
Grant
Hubbard
Otter Tail
Traverse
Wadena
Wilkin
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$144,687
Lincoln
Recipient
Prospect House Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,733
Otter Tail
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District - The Landing
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,949

The project helps put The Landing back on a professional collections management footing after a disastrous fire several years ago that destroyed all of their inventory information.

The grant allowed them to start making an inventory of the twenty-five buildings that make up The Landing including recording the condition and location of the collection.

Scott
Recipient
Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,478

To provide appropriate storage materials for museum collections.

Douglas
Recipient
Danish American Center
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,458

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District - The Landing
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,750

Building on past efforts to catalog collections, the Three Rivers Park District continued the assessment and inventory of collections at The Landing in Shakopee. Inventories of 1, 015 artifacts from six (6) individual structures: the Wilkie House; the Graffenstadt House; the Kahl House; the Harms House; the Bank, and the Boesel "Red" Barn were conducted. All artifact information was recorded by PastPerfect software.

Scott
Recipient
Douglas County Historical Society
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,473
Douglas
Recipient
Otter Tail County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified technicians to upgrade Otter Tail County Historical Society's fire and burglar alarm systems.

Otter Tail
Recipient
MIGIZI Communications
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,490
To complete research on the impact of the Federal Urban Indian Relocation Program in Minneapolis.
Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Recipient
Danebod Folk School
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Lincoln
Recipient
Danebod Lutheran Church
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$176,900
Lincoln
Recipient
Danebod Lutheran Church and Folk School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,865

The Danebod Lutheran Church and Folk School commissioned the repair and restoration of a drawing by Jes Smidt. The 1918 drawing is a copy of a much earlier work by Lorens Frolich (840-935AD). The subject of the work is Queen Thyra Danebod, an important figure in Danish culture, for which the church and school are named.

Lincoln
Recipient
Danebod Lutheran Church and Folk School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,551

The early nineteen hundred drawing by Jes Smidt exhibited in a lecture hall at the Danebod Folk School complex was safely removed and transported to the Midwest Art Conservation Center laboratories where condition reports and treatment proposals for conservation of the drawing were determined.

Lincoln
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500
Statewide
Dakota
Rice
Scott
Goodhue